Wrong. According to "Hindus" there is only one God with many faces. Nothing can exist without God but God's existence is dependent on nothing. Our existence is in God, not so his in us.You have been misinformed.
I do not know what Christian missionaries you are speaking of.
I think you do. Or would if you could accept Krishna as an incarnation of God and not a demon.
I honestly don't what this "gift" of salvation might be. Salvation is more work than anything else. Jesus did not die for my sins. He was crucified because ignorant men did not recognize him. It would be no different today. The ignorant - those who profess to know the truth and love God - would crucify him all over again.
Please refer to the website http://www.sanatansociety.org/hindu_gods_and_goddesses/shiva.htm
where Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma are all mentioned as separate gods.
I am not by any means an expert on Hinduism, but Shiva is mentioned as having different faces, but not as being encarnations of the other two Gods mentioned here, and Vishnu, I believe has 8 incarnations. There also a Kali, goddess of time and death, among others.
You are wrong this was foretold hundreds of years before Jesus was even born.
Isaiah 53:
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
As Jesus said He could have called many legions of angel and stopped this. There were many prophecies that determined Him to be the messiah, that He fulfilled.
As far as you not accepting the gift of salvation that is up to you. No one can force one to accept a gift. That may be thing that so many hate about Christianity.
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